Bayard Rustin
"Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us"
bell hooks
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance”
Montgomery Co. Police: Trans Protections Have Not Led to Bathroom Rapes
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Montgomery County Chief of Police has responded to allegations that four men have dressed up in women’s clothing to rape women in the…
The HRC Corporate Equality Index: Because Humans Apparently Don’t Make Shoes
The Human Rights [for some humans] Campaign released its 2012 Corporate Equality Index about a month ago, ranking top companies according to their ability to meet a selection of standards…
12 Resolutions for the Trans* Community in 2012
1. Get the charges dropped against CeCe McDonald. Identify other cases of anti-trans bias in the justice system and raise awareness to support these people. 2. Pick up where the decision in…
Even More Separatist Crap
I prefer transsexual…(although really there are a lot of other things I prefer ahead of that: artist, feminist, vegan, witch, and body worker, to name a few)…but that doesn’t mean…
Another Public-Accommodations-Less Law…
I am reading Diane B. Schulder’s article “Does the Law Oppress Women?” in Sisterhood is Powerful, an anthology edited by Robin Morgan and published in 1970 (and awesome ever since). In…
The Mystery of the Misgendered Martyr
The Manning defense suggests that Manning’s gender identity disorder should have been a red flag for security clearance. The media and justice system’s reporting on Manning as a gay soldier…
What Can We Do With Trans Rights Advocacy?
Trans rights advocacy (whether transgender, genderqueer, and/or transsexual, intersex, two-spirit, all) is–from my perspective, as an underemployed trans woman–nearly impossible in the cis dominated mainstream LGBT civil rights movement. Trans…
Report on Latina Trans Injustice Should Remind Us of Someone…
By now most trans people have heard about the study Injustice at Every Turn released in early February this year by the Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the National…
We Have a Dream
Please note at writing, the planned dedication service for the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial has been postponed. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not…
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{ "Therefore, I am a full-throated supporter of marriage equality in NJ." This is what pisses me off about the civil rights carcinomas such as... } – Feb 03, 1:40 PM
{ PS I as a transgender woman have tried to enter a men's room and been directed to the ladies'room. What's a girl to do. } – Feb 03, 1:04 PM
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